Macroing things together is a good idea if it's a dodge/mastery/parry/strength trinket. I've always done it, macro'd it with a minor cooldown to make it more effective.
For example, Lifeblood/Darkmasters with Holy Avenger is perfect. Hard hitting and more SOTR uptime.

8 days til I can play again D: Is painful sitting here having to imagine everything rather than actually experience it at some point, I'm only level 87.75

Don't know how you feel about leveling. But can give you a tip how to take 89-90 in an hour or two. ( since personally I was sick of leveling by the time I was 89 ).
You will miss out on the "leveling experience" but get 90 fast from 89

Make sure you do all quests leading up the final zone before 89. Asap when you get 89, make quests to the new zone. Do the first quest hub in the new zone so you get to Klaxxi'Va. Take the Iron Mantid buff from the klaxxi. Then simply run up and down the scar, pull 30-40 mobs, elits and non elits, even those big spider thingies and just aoe down with SoI and SotR and keep SS up. You can easily pull 20-40 mobs with practice. ( problem is mobs resetting ). Each mob giving around 25k xp so thats a good 500-1000k experience per pull. Its the fastest way to level that I have found yet.

I'll consider it based on how bored I get So far however with Jade Forest and Vale, I did every single quest in the zone and actually read about half of the quest text hence in about 8 hours I only made it to just shy of 88, leveling as prot. I won't lie I skipped Nesingwary but that's only because I want to wreak havoc on it once I'm max and geared a bit. Plan to do every quest in Kun Lai and Townlong too, actually finding it interesting because for TBC, Wrath and Cata whilst I was never racing for realm firsts I was powering through so I missed all this. There's actually something to be said for being a bit slower... it's nice...

Can't believe I just said that. *shudder* It's against every principle I ever raided for.

Think I got to the part in Kun Lai where I'd done all the southern stuff and the Ox Wash, don't think I did that small Shado Pan bit yet in the bottom left but did all the Jin Yu bit. Last part I did was kill some thingies for the Grummles next to the Sha of fear and collect 3 leaders bodies and kill some others.

Basically, one button that uses Holy Prism on CD as well as sacred shield every ~25 or so seconds (or so it rounds around to), and of course, Shield of the Righteous. Tried it out on a few randoms, its pretty great. You can sub in Holy prism for Execution Sen or, a little bit more awkwardly, Hammer of light.

Originally Posted by Asphyxes

Taco dinner, movie at my mancave then I'll surprise her with a TCG tabard and tell her I love her.

I prefer to have more control over when I use Sacred Shield (if you use it a second before a 15 second trinket buff expires you get the benefit of that buff on the Sacred Shield for ~45 seconds out of every 60) but still not too bad.

I prefer to have more control over when I use Sacred Shield, but still not too bad.

What do you mean? Unless you are casting it on a fellow tank (I have a Hpally healer which does as much anyway), isn't there really no drawbacks to refreshing the duration? I'm not saying this to be snarky, im genuinely curious to see if im missing something obvious here.

Originally Posted by Asphyxes

Taco dinner, movie at my mancave then I'll surprise her with a TCG tabard and tell her I love her.

Say you have a haste buff that puts you over a breakpoint, or you know your vengeance is going to drop low. If you refresh the buff before that buff expires it inherits your current haste and AP values for the entire duration of the buff. If you are relying on a macro to refresh SS at a set time, you have less control over the application of the buff. Or you know you will have a haste buff in 5 seconds time, and the macro casts SS 1 second before the buff occurs, you won't be able to get SS to benefit from the buff for another 6 seconds, and you wasted a GCD.

Say you have a haste buff that puts you over a breakpoint, or you know your vengeance is going to drop low. If you refresh the buff before that buff expires it inherits your current haste and AP values for the entire duration of the buff. If you are relying on a macro to refresh SS at a set time, you have less control over the application of the buff. Or you know you will have a haste buff in 5 seconds time, and the macro casts SS 1 second before the buff occurs, you won't be able to get SS to benefit from the buff for another 6 seconds, and you wasted a GCD.

Fuck, so if I cast SS with my current set up a second before lust, I'm completely losing out on an extra two ticks on my sacred shield. This is new information for me, thanks. I'll run a few randoms with SS out of that macro and see what happens. Regardless of what I decide, I'm thinking I'll keep the macro purely for the upkeep on holy prism. With it having such a short CD it seems useless trying to save it for damage spikes or the like.

Originally Posted by Asphyxes

Taco dinner, movie at my mancave then I'll surprise her with a TCG tabard and tell her I love her.